Greater Kansas City Aviculture Society (10/26/2002)
Judge: Janet Landvater
Exhibitors: 7
Entries: 72

Judge's Comments:

The GKCAS hosted their 26th annual bird show and with bird clubs choosing to not hold shows anymore it is nice to see a club that hangs in there.

We have 72 birds and 7 exhibitors. Bas as you can see by the listed results, it was the Jim Munis show. Ten of the twelve birds placed on the top bench where Jim's. Now that's a credit to his breeding and show training. There's no doubt he has some really nice love birds. The yellow Fischer's that placed first was beautiful, a good clear orange face and really showed itself well too.

There were only 3 birds in the rares section and they were all black-cheeked - non of which made it to the top bench. They didn't behave well in the show box, so therefore they messed their feathers up a lot.

In the Fischer's section there were 4 birds. Two green Type I (Nominate) but no Type II (Domestic). Only one medium green and two dilutes (50%), one young and one old. And two diluted (80%) one young and one old with the old one taking first place.

The masked section had one violet in it. The number of birds being show in the masked section has been down at a lot of shows lately. I hope that more people will try to breed these birds. I really like the look of the blue masked and when it has violet init, it is an exceptionally good-looking bird.

The green peachfaced section had 9 birds. One young green, two medium green, four orangefaced medium greens, two old and two young, and two lutinos, One of the medium greens placed 6th on the top bench.

The blue peachfaced section was the biggest with 16 birds entered. Quite a few classes had single birds entered. Only one young blue was entered, all the rest were entered in the old classes. A really nice big medium blue placed 3rd on the bench. Nice clean lines and in good feather. And a very clear whitefaced blue finished in 9th position. This bird would have placed higher had it not had some conditioning faults. And a creamino placed 10th overall.

Next came the green pied peachfaced and there were 6 birds entered. The second place bird came out of this section. Pieds have a tendency to look puffy and fluffed when shown. They seem to tired easily too or to at least look tired. This bird held up well and was not too fluffed looking. I really liked the way this bird showed itself. This bird could have won the show, but the dilute Fischer's was just a little better looking that day. A young orangefaced green pied finished 4th and it was very nice for a young bird. Nice tight feathering and it showed itself fairly well for such a young bird. It was also the best unflighted bird that day. The blue pied section had 5 birds entered. A very nice medium blue pied placed 5th on the bench. Again the pieds did better at this show than usual.

The American cinnamon peachfaced section had only 4 birds with one in each of the 4 different classes. American cinnamon, orangefaced American cinnamon, blue and American cinnamon violet young and old. Two birds from this section placed on the top bench. An orangefaced placed 11th and a blue finished 12th. Both had some conditioning problems.

In the Australian cinnamon section, there were 9 birds exhibited. Again mostly one bird to a class. A very nice green made it to the top bench coming in 5th behind the young orangefaced pied.

The violet section had 7 birds in it and one placed 7th overall in the show. This was one of the two birds that Dave Arthur brought to the show. Well his wife, Mary, was kind enough to bring them as Dave was called to work at the last minute.

There were four champions, three of them were Jim Munis' and one was Dave Arthur's. Two of Jim's champions placed, an orangefaced green came in 2nd and an orangefaced green pied came in 7th. The champions are supposed to be the best, but it was hard to beat the quality of birds that were on the bench this day.

It was a nice show with several exhibitors sitting in the gallery. We had time to talk about some of the birds that were being shown that day. I hope it was as much fun and educational for them as it was for me. And Jim Munis keep up the good work, your birds are hard to beat.

I would like to thank the Greater Kansas City Aviculture Society for asking me to come and judge. Also a nice big thank you to my secretary, Angela, steward Kendall and ribbon tier, Jim.